I was wondering if anybody could tell me when Deutsche Grammophon is announcing the details of their full soundtrack for 2019 HBO TV Mini-Series Chernobyl or itís release date as theyíre yet to announce the details or itís release date & Iím worried it got canceled.

Thanks :)!
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Sat, 18 May 2019 14:11:01 GMTI recently made a thread here where I noticed an anomaly on the track "OMNIS LACRIMA" which sounded like "Crackling" at points throughout the track. I had found several versions of the same track and some suffered the issues while others did not.

After looking into it more, what I discovered is that that the periodic "Crackling" sound is where the track is clipping. You can see this on the below image.

As I had only compared other tracks by ear, I decided to compare more tracks objectively to see if it's a problem with the 96/24 (Bluray) version of the OST but this didn't seem to be the case as "Galdin Quay" appeared ok in both versions. It seemed like it was limited to the 96/24 version of "OMNIS LACRIMA"...?

I recalled suspecting the track "Somnus (Instrumental Version)" when I was doing a listening comparison but it wasn't as obvious there (to me at least). Except as I dug further, I found that it indeed does suffer from clipping as well. You can see this below. The plot twist is that it's now the 44/16 version of the track that clips!

I'd love to hear from someone who knows what's going on. I can't imagine the mastering process missed all of this. Is this a ripping issue? What I don't understand is why it's so inconsistent. I'm going to try and create a combined OST that preserves non-clipped tracks from both but if somebody already has this, it would save me a whole lot of trouble.

PS. I curate my OSTs so I won't have every single track analyzed, only the ones I've kept.

Thoughts?
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Thu, 16 May 2019 03:56:34 GMTI LOVE the theme to Night Trap. I have some really intimate memories with this song, and those memories have been with me for a long time. But something that always went along with those memories was the inability to sing the song's climax. At the time the remastered version hadn't been released so I found the cleanest rip I could and was satisfied enough, but the audio was so noisy and parts of the song so vocally rushed that no matter how hard I tried I could not decipher what the full lyrics were. It became a bit of a mental puzzle to entertain me on bus rides and long walks home from campus; I'd listen to the song to just enjoy it and challenge myself to try and piece together the lyrics, but still I couldn't interpret it. I opened it up in Ableton and looped the song's climax over and over through my studio monitors and still nothing. Even when the remastered version was released, it didn't help much (although I'll get to that soon.) I even emailed Martin Lund and still turned up nothing.

Fast forward to about two months ago. Still listening, still guessing. But for some reason I think I was editing embedded lyrics for some songs in my library and I went to check on Night Trap's lyrics to see how it looked, and after reading down the lyrics for a little while it finally clicked. While I had spent all this time looping the offending bit of lyrics over and over, I should have just looked at how the lyrics would have fit into the context of the song. At that point there are only so many logical options the lyrics to be, and after some thought I think I've finally nailed it, but before I go any farther let's listen to what I'm actually talking about.

Love is easy by the light of day
You get the boys to play away
But at sundown when darkness falls
Passion burns but danger calls

So girls go out only if you dare
You'd better be good, you'd better beware

Night Trap
Bad boys will find you
Night Trap
Watch out behind you
Night TrapGirls if you ______
You'll be caught in the night
Night Trap

Night Trap
Bad boys will find you
Night Trap
Watch out behind you
Night TrapGirls if you ______
You'll get caught in the night
You'll get caught in the night
In the Night Trap

Night Trap

The only real stab I've seen anyone take at deciphering that line is a lone FAQ on GameFAQs hilariously titled "Night Trap Song Lyrics FAQ". Seems I'm not the first person to look into this. Unfortunately, not only does the line they offer not make sense it context, the audio on the song sounds nothing like it. Their line is "Girls if you are driving a ride..." No. Years later and Night Trap's 25th Anniversary Edition is released, and coinciding with the release of the game is a remastered version of the Night Trap Theme for digital download and 7" record. Around this time a second FAQ gets written, this time a script of the game. Unfortunately this was just a case of someone listening to the lyrics and transcribing their best attempt, and their attempt was "Girls, if you're taking a ride" Also a big no. It makes a little more sense than the first attempt but it's still very clumsy when compared to the rest of the lyrics and again doesn't match the audio that's actually sung.

So with that unnecessary exposition out of the way, here are what I believe to be the correct lyrics to the Night Trap theme song:

Quote:

Love is easy by the light of day
You get the boys to play away
But at sundown when darkness falls
Passion burns but danger calls

So girls go out only if you dare
You'd better be good, you'd better beware

Night Trap
Bad boys will find you
Night Trap
Watch out behind you
Night TrapGirls if you try to make it right
You'll be caught in the night
Night Trap

Night Trap
Bad boys will find you
Night Trap
Watch out behind you
Night TrapGirls if you try to make it right
You'll get caught in the night
You'll get caught in the night
In the Night Trap

Night Trap

"Girls if you try to make it right." It's much more obvious once you realize it. The song is directed at "girls" and even uses the word near the beginning of a previous lyric. "try to make it right" not only matches the sung audio exactly but it's also summarizing the objective of the game itself. Unlike "driving" or "taking a ride" it's directly relevant to the game and sounds a lot more natural. Plus again, it exactly matches the sung audio. Also, a huge benefit of the remastered version that I hadn't realized at the time is that the song is not only extended from the Sega CD version, but the second chorus isn't just a copy of the first, its just further along in the take. This means Sunny BlueSkyes' singing of the second chorus is slightly different, and while it's still as rushed and muffled, it gives us a second point of comparison for figuring out these lyrics. Again, "Girls if you try to make it right" is a perfect fit.

And that's it. My odd and unfortunate obsession with deciphering the lyrics to Night Trap are over, and I can finally belt that chorus at the top of my lungs. It may not be a beautiful sound, but at least now I can do it with confidence. Thanks for reading everyone :)
]]>CartridgeCulturehttp://forums.ffshrine.org/showthread.php?t=233133Final Fantasy Rumble 6.0--vote for your favorite FF music!http://forums.ffshrine.org/showthread.php?t=232836&goto=newpost
Wed, 01 May 2019 23:50:25 GMTIt's that time of year again! I bring you the sixth annual Final Fantasy Music Rumble.

This is a Final Fantasy music knock-out game.

128 songs from the main Final Fantasy series (1-15) will be randomly paired head-to-head. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to pick a winner in each pairing.

* I will be posting the match-ups in groups of 8 every few days, but all brackets (A-H) will remain open until r2, so feel free to go back and vote if you missed one.

* The first round will remain open at least until 7 people vote.

* Tracks will be listed with their cumulative total votes through 2018.

* There is absolutely no standard criteria for voting.

* In the event of a tie, the statistical underdog always wins.

* DO NOT edit vote changes into your original posts. Make a new post. Due to the way I am counting these now, a change will very likely be overlooked if you edit it in.

* Off-site voting: I will be extending an invitation to Mafia Universe to vote off-site this year. This usually results in 3-4 "invisible" votes for those of you keeping track here. I'll link the thread in case you're curious.

* 7 tracks made the cut for the first time this year, adding three Final Fantasy 15 and two Final Fantasy 5 tracks into the fray, along with one each from Final Fantasies 8 and 13. 19 established tracks that failed to qualify last year will be returning. That makes 26 total entries in this year's rumble that did not appear in 2018. (Last year was 8 and 19 for 27. Seems we're pretty consistent here.)

If you're curious, last year's winner was Final Fantasy IX - Freya's Theme.
It beat Final Fantasy IX - Dark Messenger 6-3 in the finals.
The semi-finalists were Final Fantasy V - Clash on the Big Bridge and Final Fantasy VII - Still More Fighting.
Bombing Mission (FF7), The Castle (FF8), Melancholia (FF15), and Valse di Fantastica (FF15) made it to the quarterfinals.

Random.org saw fit to pair two of the above-mentioned tracks against each other in the first match of this year's game.
Random.org also guaranteed that, like in 2016, one previous champion will be eliminated in the first round.

Going to be some tough Round 1 match-ups this year. I'm looking forward to it. Are you?